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By Stephen Cass, Kevin R. Grazier
Lighthearted, quirky, and upbeat, this e-book explores the portrayal of technology and expertise on either the massive and little monitor -- and the way Hollywood is absolutely doing a greater task of having it correct than ever earlier than. Grounded within the real-word, and infrequently state-of-the-art, technological know-how and expertise that evokes fictional technological know-how, the authors survey Hollywood depictions of subject matters comparable to quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and alien worlds. together with fabric from interviews with over dozen writers, manufacturers, and administrators of acclaimed science-themed productions -- in addition to scientists, technological know-how fiction authors, and technological know-how advisors -- Hollyweird technology examines monitor technology fiction from the sometimes-conflicting vantage issues of storytellers, researchers, and audience. together with a foreword via Eureka co-creator and government manufacturer Jaime Paglia, and an afterword through astronomer and technology fiction writer Michael Brotherton, Ph.D., this booklet is on the market to all readers from the layperson to the armchair professional to the pro scientist, and may pride them all both.
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In Asia Minor he demonstrated his respect for the Greek god Apollo by reprimanding his Magnesian satrap Gadatas for collecting taxes from the sacred land belonging to the temple. The King of Kings, Darius, son of Hystaspes, to Gadatas, his slave, thus speaks: I find that you are not completely obedient concerning my orders. Because you are cultivating my land, transplanting fruit trees from the province Beyond-the-Euphrates to the western Asiatic regions, I praise your purpose, and in consequence there will be laid up in store for you great favour in the royal house.
In 341 Athens dispatched an embassy to Persia in an attempt to negotiate Persian aid against Macedon. When Philip attacked Perinthus at the Hellespont in 340, Artaxerxes III ordered the satraps of Asia Minor to send mercenary troops and supplies for the city. The Macedonians were forced to withdraw, but then moved to attack Byzantium. In October 340 Athens declared war on Philip, having secured the support of the islands of Chios, Rhodes and Cos, and, most importantly, of Persia. The Persian–Athenian alliance effectively meant that Philip’s ambitions of a Macedonian hegemony over Greece could not be fulfilled.
While Greek sources describe Artaxerxes III as a victim of a palace coup who was murdered with the aid of the chiliarch Bagoas, a Babylonian document simply states ‘Month Ulul (August/September), Umakush (Artaxerxes III) (went to his) fate; his son Arshu sat on the throne’ (BM 71537; Walker 1997: 22). The expression ‘to go to one’s fate’ is a known Babylonian phrase to express a person’s death, and is meant to refer to a death by natural causes. If so, then Greek descriptions of a court intrigue surrounding the death of Artaxerxes III have to be regarded with scepticism.